Digital bridge for drawing and configuration tools
AssigneeSiemens Industry, Inc.
InventorsHeinrich Helmut Degen, Holger Schmidt, Nathan Clanney
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Abstract
A computer implemented digital bridge that reduces the time and costs associated with designing and configuring hardware and/or logic for an application while also reducing the potential for errors during the process.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program implementing a digital bridge, said program including one or more sets of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:
- identifying and extracting first project data from one or more output features of a first computer-implemented tool executed on a first computer device;
- storing the identified and extracted first project data in a first project data structure;
- converting the stored first project data within the first project data structure into one or more formats for transferring the stored first project data to a second computer-implemented tool executed on a second computer device;
- storing the converted first project data on the one or more non-transitory mediums respectively associated with the one or more formats;
- at the second computer device, inputting the stored converted first project data from the one or more non-transitory mediums;
- converting the input stored converted first project data into second project data for storage in a second project data structure;
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- storing the second project data in the second project data structure.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program including one or more sets of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising a digital bridge, the digital bridge comprising:
- a plurality of feature mechanisms adapted to identify and extract first project data from one or more output features of a first computer-implemented tool executed on a first computer device, and being adapted to store the identified and extracted first project data in a first project data structure;
- a first set of converters adapted to convert the stored first project data within the first project data structure into one or more formats for transferring the stored first project data to a second computer-implemented tool executed on a second computer device, and being adapted to store the converted first project data on the one or more non-transitory mediums respectively associated with the one or more formats;
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- a second set of converters, at the second computer device, adapted to input the stored converted first project data from the one or more non-transitory mediums, convert the input stored converted first project data into second project data for storage in a second project data structure and to store the second project data in the second project data structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.